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As @Luke above, this is my personal opinion not a admin statement.

The policy is from a different era (2009) and not really a good match for today. Personally, to my mind, seeing evidence for some of the mechanistic rulebreaks is pointless. The sanction details the reason and the Official Faction can decide what they wish to do with their member. I can understand however the need for some people t o evaluate material themselves and thus the need for the evidence.

Personally I would like to see evidence go only to the Official Faction forum account when evidence of a tagged ship showing the sanctioned player is in the faction. Then the factioncan act as they see appropriate. If the faction account is not shared enough or shared too much then this is a faction problem to address, not the admins.

Violation reports are never usually processed unless a minimum number of inputs have appeared with no dissent, even then only the more obvious mechanistic ones with black and white evidence. Sometimes the sanctioned person provides context that changes the perspective and the sanction is changed, often with rationale to the server community if needed. The more complex, especially Rule 1 breaks, are visible to at least 18 people currently (moderators, adms and some of the server staff such as Alex.) and voted upon. There is a recurrent discussion about opening evidence up to the community but this leads to problems we have yet to find a solution for, not least "innocent until found guilty". Trial by forum is not pleasant and rarely achieves anything positive.

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